When the unions
inspiration,
Through the workers blood shall run,
Anywhere beneath the sun,
There can be no power greater
Yet what force on earth is weaker
Than the feeble strength of one
But the union makes us strong.

Refrain
Solidarity for ever (ter)
For the union makes us strong.

Is there aught
we hold in common
With the greedy parasite
Who lash us into serfdom
And who would crush us with his might ?
Is there anything left us
But to organize and fight ?
For the union makes us strong.

It is we who plowed
the prairies,
Built the cities where they trade,
Dug the mine and built the workshops,
Endless miles of railroad laid ;
Now we stand, outcast and starving,
Mid the wonders we made
But the union makes us strong.

All the world that's
owned by idle drones
Is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations ;
Build it skyward stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in,
But to master and to own,
While the union makes us strong.

They have taken
untold milions
That they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle
not a single wheel can turn,
We can break their haughty power,
Gain our freedom when we learned
That the union makes us strong.

In our hands is
placed a power
Greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of atoms,
Magnified a thousanfold
We can bring to birth a new world
From the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.